Package: preseed Severity: normal I did an install of etch with a preseeded password and when I checked /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat on the installed system, the passwords were there. I think this happens because preseed currently copies all debconf values to the preseed file that is fed into the installed system. Before when we had base-config this was ok for passwords; when passwd.config ran in base-config it used and then cleared the preseeded passwords. Now user-setup runs in d-i, clears the passwords in d-i, but they remain in the preseed file and reach the second stage. One way to fix this would be to make preseed take care to not copy over values owned by "d-i". And to make sure that all the preseed docs are updated to make examples of preseeding passwords have the values owned by d-i. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- see shy jo
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